Relatives of people killed in the September 11, 2001 attacks on the United States Friday welcomed moves by two former senators to link Saudi Arabia to the events as part of a huge lawsuit. Ex-Florida senator Bob Graham and former Nebraska senator Bob Kerrey said in sworn affidavits to a New York court they were certain of the links between the Saudi government and the attacks.
"I am convinced that there was a direct line between at least some of the terrorists who carried out the September 11th attacks and the government of Saudi Arabia," said Graham. Graham led a joint 2002 congressional inquiry into the attacks in which al Qaeda militants hijacked four planes and crashed them into the World Trade Center in New York, the Pentagon in Washington and a Pennsylvania field. Almost 3,000 people were killed in the worst ever attack on American soil.
Kerrey, who served on a separate 9/11 inquiry, said in his own sworn statement last week that "significant questions remain unanswered about the role of Saudi institutions." "Evidence relating to the plausible involvement of possible Saudi government agents in the September 11th attacks has never been fully pursued." Families of the victims said Friday they welcomed the comments "strongly disagreeing with papers filed by the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia and the Saudi High Commission claiming that they had been 'exonerated' of any connection to the 9/11 terrorist attacks."
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